page_title: Allium bisceptrum
hierarchical_section_title: Allium bisceptrum
caption_attribution_description: English: Twincrest, or aspen, onion (Allium bisceptrum) emerging plants with leaves and buds. At 1,920&#160;m (6,300&#160;ft) next to bike path just west of Lower Rock Creek. Mono County, California, in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.
context_page_description: Allium bisceptrum, also known as the twincrest onion or aspen onion, is a high elevation plant native to western United States. It is a perennial that thrives under damp and shady conditions or open meadows in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Utah.
  Allium bisceptrum is used sometimes as food flavoring as their leaves may be very strong and odorous. Natives pray before picking the leaves of this plant. Many animals in the region, including elk, black bears and prairie dogs, eat the bulbs of the wild onions.
context_section_description: Allium bisceptrum, also known as the twincrest onion or aspen onion, is a high elevation plant native to western United States.  It is a perennial that thrives under damp and shady conditions or open meadows in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Utah.
  Allium bisceptrum is used sometimes as food flavoring as their leaves may be very strong and odorous.  Natives pray before picking the leaves of this plant.  Many animals in the region, including elk, black bears and prairie dogs, eat the bulbs of the wild onions.
caption: Allium bisceptrum buds, leaves
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